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My Generation: Michael Caine Serves as Tour Guide to Swinging 60s London

By Liam Lacey

ReviewSeptember 27, 2018Michael Caine, Documentary, London, Swinging 60s, Twiggy, David Batty, Paul McCartney, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Quant, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London, Vidal Sassoon, David Bailey, The Beatles, Pete Townshend, Terence DonovanComment

Lizzie: Feminist Spin on Classic Murder Tale Answers Some Questions, Raises Others

By Liam Lacey

ReviewSeptember 27, 2018Lizzie Borden, Chloë Sevigny, True Crime, Drama, Historical film, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens, Dennis O’Hare, Lesbian love storyComment

Hold the Dark: Snowy mountains, frozen lakes, killer wolf-spirits and Lynchian ambiguity

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 27, 2018Lynchian, Hold the Dark, Jeremy Saulnier, Green Room, William Giraldi, Wolves, Jeffrey Wright, Westworldd, Aboriginal spirit lore, Keelut, Riley Keough, Tattoo Cardinal, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, NetflixComment

Bad Reputation: Doc Shows How Joan Jett Crashed Male Rock ‘n’ Roll Party

By Kim Hughes

ReviewSeptember 26, 2018The Runaways, The Blackhearts, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Documentary, Hot Docs, L7, Hole, Music documentaries, Sex Pistols, Bikini Kill, Floria Sigismondi, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Cherie Currie, Iggy Pop, Miley CyrusComment

Keira Knightley brings spark to a rule-breaking literary icon in the snappy historical drama Colette

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 25, 2018Colette, Gigi, Henry Gauthier-Villars, Svengali, Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Belle Epoque, Historical LGBT figures, Wash Westmoreland, Folies BergèreComment

Original-Cin Q&A: w/Anthropocene's 'Three Horsemen (Horse-humans?) of the Apocalypse'

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 25, 2018Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, Anthropocene Epoch, Holocene, Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark, Great Barrier Reef, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Norilsk Russia, Anthropocene Working Group, Pure Earth, Dandora Landfill Kenya, Alicia VikanderComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Colette's Keira Knightley and Dominic West on cads, Belle Epoque sexual freedom and polka

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 24, 2018Colette, Gigi, Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Henry Gauthier-Villars, Svengali, Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Belle Epoque, Historical LGBT figuresComment

Fahrenheit 11/9: Michael Moore’s Latest Shticks It to Trump… for Better or Worse

By Liam Lacey

ReviewSeptember 20, 2018Michael Moore, documentary, Fahrenheit 11/9, Fahrenheit 9/11, Trump, Hitler

The House with a Clock in Its Walls: Meticulous Fantasy Hobbled by Sluggish Story

By Liam Lacey

ReviewSeptember 20, 2018Eli Roth, Jack Black, Kid flicks, Sunny Suljic, Kyle MacLachlan

Love, Gilda: Heartfelt Doc on Late, Beloved SNL Alum Hits All the Right Notes

By Kim Hughes

ReviewSeptember 20, 2018Hot Docs, documentary, Gilda Radner, Saturday Night Live, Martin Short, Paul Shaffer, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler

Assassination Nation: Mean Girls meets The Purge with mixed results

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 20, 2018Assassination Nation, Sam Levinson, Barry Levinson, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Transparent, Internet thrillers, Social media, Midnight Madness movies, Abra, Odessa Young

The Wife: Glenn Close deserves an Oscar for rising above this unconvincing drama

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 19, 2018The Wife, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Christian Slater, Movies about writers, Meg Wolitzer, Bjorn Runge, Dysfunctional marriages, Adultery

Original-Cin Q&A: Assassination Nation's Hari Nef and Suki Waterhouse on 8-minute sex scenes and dealing with the paparazzi

By Bonnie Läufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 18, 2018Assassination Nation, Sam Levinson, Barry Levinson, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Transparent, Internet thrillers, Social media, Midnight Madness movies, Abra, Mardi Gras, Paparazzi

Original-Cin Q&A: Life Itself's Dan Fogelman on making people cry and being an 'unreliable narrator'

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 17, 2018Dan Fogelman, Life Itself, This Is Us, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Isaac, Toronto International Film Festival, Antonio Banderas, Laia Costa, Sensitivity, Films that make you cry

That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, And Weirdest Of Tiff 2018

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes and Karen Gordon

ReviewSeptember 16, 2018TIFF 2018, First Man, Green Book, The Elephant Queen, The Weekend, Drama, Comedy

Original-Cin TIFF Picks: Saturday, September 15

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, and Karen Gordon

PreviewSeptember 15, 2018TIFF 2018, Gala, Outlaw King, September 15, Chris Pine, David Mackenzie, Lionheart, Discovery, Driven, Nick Hamm, Jason Sudeikis

Original-Cin review/interview: Nic Cage's beast mode and Canadian Panos Cosmatos raise the Midnight Movie bar in Mandy

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2018Nicolas Cage losing his shit, Mandy, Panos Cosmatos, George P. Cosmatos, Linus Roache, Andrea Riseborough, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Midnight movies

Original-Cin@TIFF Q&A: The makers of the doc Screwball on A-Rod's juicing and 'Florida f---ery'

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2018Baseball juicing, Biogenesis scandal, Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, "Florida Man", Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, documentaries, Anthony Bosch, Major League Baseball, Cocaine Cowboys, The U, Sports documentaries

A Simple Favor: Director Paul Feig’s Bold Noir-Comedy a Total Thrill Ride

By Kim Hughes

ReviewSeptember 13, 2018Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively

The Children Act: Meh Legal Drama Offers Good Performances, Negligible Payoff

By Kim Hughes

ReviewSeptember 13, 2018Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ian Mcewan, Richard Eyre